The Cape Is in the Closet…Somewhere

You ever have one of those weekends where everything you meant to do… just didn’t happen?

I was supposed to do my budget.
Prep my taxes.
Upload the legal templates to my site.
Handle all the things that matter for my business and my future.

Instead, I baked a cake with my daughter.
Made it to church.
And now I’m in my closet, packing for a work trip to D.C.
Hair undone since March, flight leaves in the morning, happy hour tomorrow, meetings all day Tuesday.

And somewhere between trying to look put together and actually be put together, it hit me:

When even the trivial things feel impossible, they stop feeling trivial at all.
They start to feel like failure.
Like you’re falling behind in every area.
Like life is moving, and you’re running to catch up with one shoelace untied and no time to stop and fix it.

But here’s what I’m learning:
Sometimes, doing anything is everything.

Baking a cake when the world feels like it’s on fire? That matters.
Showing up for work when your confidence is low and your curls are old? That counts.
Still trying, even when you’re tired of trying? That’s hero work.

We tell ourselves we’re failing because we didn’t finish the checklist.
But we don’t give ourselves credit for living through the kind of days that create those checklists in the first place.

Nobody’s coming to save us.
But maybe the cape was never about being rescued.
Maybe it’s about choosing to show up, again and again
Even when your hair’s not done.
Even when your plans didn’t happen.
Even when you feel like a mess.

That cape still fits.
And you’re still wearing it.
Still showing up.
Still putting on our capes even when they’re wrinkled and buried in laundry.

You don’t have to have it all together to be doing something powerful.
You don’t need perfect hair, inbox zero, or a balanced schedule to be winning at life in your own way.

Sometimes, surviving the week is success.
Sometimes, baking the cake is the business plan.
And sometimes, laughing with strangers on a Monday night is the reset you didn’t know you needed.

So if nobody told you today, you’re doing amazing.
You are not behind.
And you are definitely not alone.

Now go be great…or at least drink some water and pretend you don’t have 14 tabs open in your brain.
We’ll try again tomorrow.